Meet the Illustrator Ann Koffsky

On Tuesday, a big surprise awaited us - we met a real illustrator, Ann Koffsky. She told us that there are lot of people in charge of making books: the author, the illustrator and the publisher. When an illustrator gets a story it looks very boring - only words. The illustrator reads the story very carefully. Her job is to draw pictures that will match the story. How does she do it? First, she plans what should be in the picture.

                                Then she does the research. Ann's illustrations to the book are about cousins - One lives in America and other in Israel. Ann made a research about how American and Israeli houses look like , and what are American and Israeli traditional food.

The draft is ready. There is only one more thing to add- color. Ann told us that colors like people have feelings. Blue- sad, black - angry, there are happy colors- yellow, green, orange, red.

This final draft became the cover of the book. 

If you are interested in more information about Ann D. Koffsky, please visit her website.

http://annkoffsky.com